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Peel off your tin-foil hat like a Hershey’s Kiss, because Bill Nye has a reality check for the alien conspiracy theorists out there.

The first study to investigate how dog brains process speech shows that our best friends in the animal kingdom care about both what we say and how we say it. Dogs, like people, use the left hemisphere to process words, a right hemisphere brain region to process intonation, and praise activates dog’s reward center only […]

Someone call Jodie Foster! Not really – it’s unlikely this signal is from an advanced alien civilisation

Are you a carnivore looking for a more ethical alternative to meat? Or a vegetarian looking for a veggie burger with a perfect likeness? On this episode of Thought Café Today, Suz takes you through the recent developments and debates surrounding meat grown in laboratories, a.k.a lab meat.

Flexible machine goes where no robot has gone before. Learn more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/0…

Astronomers have discovered evidence of a small, rocky planet orbiting our nearest star – and it may even be a bit like Earth. Nobody knows whether the planet, called Proxima b, could ever sustain life. The little planet orbits our sun’s nearest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri, making it the closest exoplanet ever found.

The immensely popular mobile game «Pokémon GO» has people running all over the world to track down and capture 151 characters from the series. But why are we doing it? We spoke with a psychologist to find out what it is exactly about this game that gets people out and about and obsessed with catching […]

Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree that humans dominate planet Earth; we’ve spread to every continent, and our actions determine the fate of other animals (and possibly Earth itself). How did […]

Sustainable Self is a new HuffPost Originals series that connects the small choices we make in our everyday lives to the huge impact they have on the Earth. Each episode takes the viewer from a micro to macro perspective by featuring a simple action and demonstrating the myriad effects the action has on the planet […]

Lap elephants! Can you handle the cuteness?

By following honeyguides, a species of bird, people in Africa are able to locate bees’ nests to harvest honey. Research now reveals that humans use special calls to solicit the help of honeyguides and that honeyguides actively recruit appropriate human partners. This relationship is a rare example of cooperation between humans and free-living animals.